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Otakon Report/ My Grandmother
11 years ago
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So Otakon was kind of a letdown.
It was three times as big as it was in 2011, not to mention to get into anything you had to wait for hours. Literally. HOURS.
On top of that, I was there to spend time with friends, mostly from college. What instead happened was me being asked for food money and being asked if I was high or drunk because I was so damn tired. (Never done drugs before in my life btw). Not because of the con, or the early mornings. All in all, Otakon was a bad time that came at a bad time. And while I enjoyed some of it, I'm not going next year.
Some of you may already know this, but my grandmother has Alzheimer's Disease.
She also has been admitted to the hospital 5 times within the past 5 weeks.
She's been getting worse, and my family has been asking more and more of me, which I am happy to do, but it's running me ragged. I've been so wiped out the past month that I just can't even concentrate anymore. On anything really. My love life is suffering, I haven't been filling out applications for jobs, and my health is on the decline. My diabetes is getting worse, but comfort foods are so much of a help right now.
I don't know if any of you deal with stuff like this, but please, if you do, don't just say, "I know what you're going through" or "I feel for you" or "hugs" because that does nothing for me here. I'm scared, confused, and not ready for any of this. I need help. I need advice. I just need to get through it. Because this is becoming my new life. I'm going to have to learn how to live it sooner or later.
It was three times as big as it was in 2011, not to mention to get into anything you had to wait for hours. Literally. HOURS.
On top of that, I was there to spend time with friends, mostly from college. What instead happened was me being asked for food money and being asked if I was high or drunk because I was so damn tired. (Never done drugs before in my life btw). Not because of the con, or the early mornings. All in all, Otakon was a bad time that came at a bad time. And while I enjoyed some of it, I'm not going next year.
Some of you may already know this, but my grandmother has Alzheimer's Disease.
She also has been admitted to the hospital 5 times within the past 5 weeks.
She's been getting worse, and my family has been asking more and more of me, which I am happy to do, but it's running me ragged. I've been so wiped out the past month that I just can't even concentrate anymore. On anything really. My love life is suffering, I haven't been filling out applications for jobs, and my health is on the decline. My diabetes is getting worse, but comfort foods are so much of a help right now.
I don't know if any of you deal with stuff like this, but please, if you do, don't just say, "I know what you're going through" or "I feel for you" or "hugs" because that does nothing for me here. I'm scared, confused, and not ready for any of this. I need help. I need advice. I just need to get through it. Because this is becoming my new life. I'm going to have to learn how to live it sooner or later.
I agree with your views of Otakon I won't say Otakon was fully horrible, and with large numbers of people after the same thing, lines are expected, but the routine of little crowd control and killing long lines (even to the point people stuck in line for hours were denied) made no sense. This was felt the worst at pre-registration, but also some of the programming were met with lines that branched everywhere and over capacity. Perhaps a more-accommodating venue and efficient crowd control would have made this Otakon better.